Week 41 - PEER 2.0

This Week

Ask your child to select a book that they enjoy reading. Read the book together and discuss the characters and settings, and important parts of the story.
Ask your child to retell this story through a short play performance. Assign parts to family members (or use stuffed animals and dolls as puppets if you don't have enough people for the play). If you'd like, find costumes and props to help tell the story. You can set up a "stage" and "audience" (toys) too.
Perform the book as a play. Allow your child to take the lead in retelling the story. If they need help remembering details, you (or your character!) can prompt them.
Take a bow and applaud each other's performances.

As you go about your day, point out numbers that help you travel from place to place (like: bus or train numbers, building numbers, or street names).
Ask your child what number(s) they see on the signs.
Spend extra time talking about navigation numbers that are important to your child (in your address, the number of the bus they take to school, etc.)

Head outside to a park, backyard, or other green space. Bring a camera or smartphone if possible.
Search for these (hint: try lifting up rocks or digging to find bugs):

If you can, take a picture of each creature you find. If you see more than one kind of each animal (different kinds of birds, etc.), take pictures of each.
Look at all of your creature photos and talk about similarities and differences you notice. If you had to sort the animals/bugs into kinds of creatures, how would you sort them, and why? (If you don't have photos, just remember and talk about all the animals you saw).

Build A Community

Turn the Pages

P - PAUSE

E - ENGAGE

E - ENCOURAGE

R - REFLECT

This week's focus: